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Teacher and
trumpeter who won the Premier de Trompette at the
Converatoires de la Ville de Paris competition
and attended Harvard College and Boston University, where he received his
Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
He is the
co-chair of the Wind, Brass & Percussion Department at the Community
Music Center of Boston and was a co-founder of The Harvard Brass.
Other groups
with which he has worked include Alea III, Con
Fuego, the Hingham Symphony Orchestra, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra,
Opera Boston, the Orchestra of Indian Hill, and the Riverside Brass
Ensemble.
In the field of
musical education, he has taught music history and theory at Harvard
University and has been in charge of the brass methods and pedagogy programs
at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.
The Harvard Brass recordings
Adeste
Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
Pro Organo CD 7134 (Christmas
in the Busch)
The Harvard
University Choir
Conductor – Murray Forbes Somerville
Harvard
Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Director – Robert Mealy
Soprano – Awet Andemicael
Bass – Mark Risinger
Organists – Erica Johnson and Edward Jones
Sources:
- http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Shamu_Geoffrey_186064972.aspx
- http://www.gshamu.com/trumpet/Performance.html
- http://www.riverside-brass.com/members.htm
- http://music.fas.harvard.edu/at_a_glance/at_a_glance_index.htm
- http://cmcb.org/about_us/upclose.php?fname=Geoffrey&lname=Shamu
- http://www.gshamu.com/trumpet/Con_Fuego!.html
- http://www.gshamu.com/trumpet/Welcome.html
- Liner notes: Christmas in the Busch
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